The present study was conducted to investigate the level of job satisfaction, factors affecting job satisfaction, relationship of socio-personal characteristics of agricultural scientists of selected state agricultural universities of northern region of India viz. PAU, GBPUAT and HAU and get suggestions. The data were collected from 300 respondents, 100 from each university. The findings revealed that all the agricultural scientists were highly satisfied and fewer differences were found among the universities. The findings revealed that HAU had more training experts as compared to PAU and...

In hill region of Uttarakhand state, women play a distinctive role not only in household but in daily routine activities like fuel wood collection, livestock raising, farming operations etc. Hill women in spite of their major role, are resource poor and ignorant about their own problems and sufferings. Hill women use traditional stoves or chulhas for cooking which emanates smoke. Since, kitchens in the most hilly homes are poorly ventilated, the smoke gets accumulated in the house. Prolonged exposure to high levels of pollutants has an adverse impact on the health of women. Although, enough...